Erotic Literature

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was an Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, and poet. His most famous works include A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729). 'The Lady's Dressing Room' (1732) Strephon who idealises his mistress' body in typically poetic terms. Once Strephon actually sees Celia's 'real' (human) body, he is repulsed that she is not the odourless, hairless, smooth vision promised to him by the poets.